Director's Report for 1916. 5 
“Tt is worth while noting the occasional advantage to the 
Museum of helping outsiders when possible. Captain Fritz Hell- 
hoff, of the S. S. Longmoon and Mr. Max Frech, first officer of the 
S. S. Prinz Waldemar, both now in port, wished to have a con- 
signment of bird of paradise skins inspected for condition before 
shipment to China for sale. Compliance with their wishes led to 
the presentation to the Museum by Mr. Frech of necklaces of 
beetles’ prothoraces, elytra and femora from Kaiserin Augusta 
River, New Guinea, specimens not before heard of. Shown in 
Fig. 3. Promises were also made by the two officers to send 
specimens to the Museum when they regained their freedom. 
The bird of paradise skins were intended only for millinery pur- 
poses, and were unsuitable for the Museum collections. 
“‘Messrs. A. F. Judd, J. A. Wilder, G. P. Cooke and C. M. 
Cooke Jr., added many specimens from Molokai, among which 
were three shell spoons not previously reported. Fig. 1. 
“Mr. J. K. Farley sent us a petroglyph which he had had cut 
from the beach at Keoneloa, Kauai, with the permission of the 
Koloa Sugar Company, on whose property the specimen was. 
‘‘Among the other gifts might be mentioned two rare pounders 
from Mr. H. Digby Sloggett, a papa kui pot pohaku or stone platter 
on which poi was pounded (unique so far), from Mr. A. Gross 
(Fig. 8), and a ringed stone mortar from Mr. Robert S. Thurston 
(Fig. 4). The gifts of other friends of the Museum appear in the 
accompanying lists. It will be noticed that there is an increase in 
the number of donors.”’ 
The field work of the department has been not only interest- 
ing but productive. The expedition to Kauai was the third in the 
past six years with the object of photograpuing the interesting 
petroglyphs on Keoneloa beach. ‘The first two were comparative 
failures for the sand which usually covers the cuttings which are 
uncovered during a Kona storm, in both cases were mostly covered 
by the time one could get word of the storm and arrive from Oahu 
at the beach. In January of this year there was a long spell of 
Kona weather and the sands left the petroglyphs uncovered for an 
unusual time, so that Mr. Stokes with Mr. Dean H. Lake and a 
specially constructed staging to place in the water where the camera 
could catch the bare ledge as the wave receded were able to secure 
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